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If you have to have a Microsoft product, as far as Access goes your not going to find it free legally. If you just need to view or add data to an existing Microsoft Access database and not alter the structure of the database then you can use Microsofts free "Runtime" application. Depending on how the database was setup will affect how the runtime interacts with a user.

If you choose a runtime option below, i recommend you only install it on computers without full version msft access on them. They don't tend to get along with the full version. After install you will not see an icon indicating it's been loaded. Just dbl click on an access file on your pc and that will launch the access runtime application. You do a search on your pc for msaccess and it'll show up too.

Hope this helps some.

Access 2007 runtime:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?...

Access 2010 runtime:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?...

You might as well give up that search and use mySQL since it's free and better than any Microsoft database, even SQL Server.